Certain things are a lot harder to do in space – and one big item is the task of going to the bathroom. When astronauts “gotta go” – they must velcro themselves to the toilet, so they don’t float away. One other little thing that might make you think twice about going into space: The urine that is collected from all the astronauts goes into a $250 million recycling machine that converts it into drinking water for the entire crew. Drink up!

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PETER NEWSOM IS GOING TO MARS. I’M SERIOUS.

If there are Martians, they’ll soon have my name and know where to find me. The reason: my name will be on a microchip, on the Mars Science Laboratory rover, heading to Mars in 2011! Click Here and fill in your information and your name will be included, along with mine! See my certificate, below. You might have to click on it – to make it large enough to read.

Hello Fellow Earthlings, I’m Peter Newsom and welcome to Peter’s Telescope – a web site I created for my sixth grade Universe Project. My science teacher, Mrs. Gardner, encouraged us to be creative – so I decided to go with a web site, instead of something I had to physically ... Continue reading →